American Declared Blogger Non Grata in Britain for Anti-Islam Crusade

American Declared Blogger Non Grata in Britain for Anti-Islam Crusade

 

By ROBERT MACKEY

Pamela Geller, the American blogger whose inflammatory campaign to “Stop the Islamization of America” has led her to buy advertising space denigrating Islam and organize protests against mosque-building, was informed this week that she is no longer allowed to travel to Britain.
In a letter from the British government she quickly posted on her blog, Atlas Shrugged, Ms. Geller was notified that she has been added to a list of “extremists” barred from travel to the country, on the grounds that her presence could “foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the U.K.” Although the travel ban cannot be appealed, the designation “is reviewed every 3 to 5 years.” Ms. Geller’s colleague Robert Spencer received a nearly identical letter from the British Home Office noting that his blog, Jihad Watch, was “a site widely criticized for being Islamophobic,” and two organizations he founded with Ms. Geller “have been described as anti-Muslim hate groups.”

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